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Alright guys, I had this cool combat trick planned for a theoretical magus of mine, but in the spirit of this thread, I'll share it.
A duelist-themed magus with Improved Disarm could Spell Combat with a casting of true strike, casting his spell first then following up with a disarm at a +18.
Bonus points if said magus did it with his hands free, and then started using the enemies weapon against them for subsequent attacks.
He'd also get extra style points if he had Equipment Trick: Heavy Blade Scabbard.
Capture Weapon (Improved Disarm): When you successfully disarm an opponent’s manufactured weapon, as a free action you may flip the disarmed weapon into your scabbard so long as the weapon would fit there. If you are not holding the scabbard in hand and attempt this, you have a –4 penalty on the disarm check. At the GM’s discretion, you can also use this trick on any item the opponent is holding as long as it would fit in your scabbard (such as a wand). You can only use this trick if you are wearing or holding your empty scabbard.
With this combination, a magus fighting with an empty scabbard and an open hand could Spell Combat true strike to use Improved Disarm at a +18 over CMB, disarm his opponent's blade in a flourish before sheathing the weapon into his open scabbard, drop it to the ground and draw his own sword with Quick Draw. Top it off with a snarky remark, and we're all set.
Mmmmm, the flavor.
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Only characters with Gunsmithing can purchase firearms (and only if they have enough Fame). However, anyone can use them, even without proficiency. If you have a gunslinger with extra guns, you can pass them out to other PCs to use. If they are masterwork or magical, they are effectively at –3 to hit, but target touch AC, which is usually a good trade off.
At the start of The Waking Rune, my gunslinger handed her double-barreled musket to the ninja, "I see you have a light crossbow. Try this out instead." (Poor ninja fired twice and hit both times, but it didn't save her life, unfortunately.)
I had a Bard that would use True Strike, a Whip and Unseen Servant... just think about it.
"Jeeve's, get any weapons people drop within 20 feet of me and bring them to me...."...
I had another case where a wizard used true strike to Steal a Redcap's red cap, and then torch it in front of his eyes with a burning hands spell. Good times!
I am working on a grippli that can disarm with a whip or its tongue, and then use its tongue to collect the weapon at range in the same round.
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It's like déjà vu all over again. ;)Getting back on track...
Most people use true strike purely for the "if I don't roll a 1, then I hit" effect, but the +20 on your attack roll can be more meaningful than that:
Bull rush (and a couple other maneuvers) care not only about whether or not you beat the target number, but by how much. Thus, if you use true strike on a bull rush and roll decently, you can launch your enemy as much as 20ft further than you're normally capable of.
Gimme a break, I've slept since then!
Gimme a break, I've slept since then!
What would you care to have broken?
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Eidolons at later levels can take swallow whole, large size, grab, and burrow to swallow a baddy, dig underground then get dismissed and leave them there to die. :)
Just don't do it if they have good loot. ;)
Who/why was that listed as FAQ?
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Here is something I learned tonight (thank you, James Krolak)...
Going up or down stairs is NOT difficult terrain, nor is it a climb check!
Stairs
Stairs are the most common means of traveling up and down within a dungeon. A character can move up or down stairs as part of their movement without penalty, but they cannot run on them. Increase the DC of any Acrobatics skill check made on stairs by 4. Some stairs are particularly steep and are treated as difficult terrain.
This is something we've been doing a lot WRONG locally. Time to start fixing it!
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Well thats cheating. (unless the monsters are say, 30 feet tall. I'd imagine that if the welcome mat to a house says "fee fi foe thumb" the stairs are easy for him but difficult for you)could very easily vary by the Judge (even "...steep for you, not for the monsters...")
If the monsters have a climb speed, the stairs wouldn't be difficult terrain for them, now would they?
Since it is a Tier 1-5, it is possible to have a low level party in there without anything to handle swarms... There are some lanterns, maybe, upstairs. Up 40' of these slimy stairs. Yeah, unprepared party=TPK
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Well thats cheating. (unless the monsters are say, 30 feet tall. I'd imagine that if the welcome mat to a house says "fee fi foe thumb" the stairs are easy for him but difficult for you)could very easily vary by the Judge (even "...steep for you, not for the monsters...")
If the monsters have a climb speed, the stairs wouldn't be difficult terrain for them, now would they?
** spoiler omitted **
TPK? Yes, it was!
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Ineffective Weapons: Certain weapons just can't effectively deal damage to certain objects. For example, a bludgeoning weapon cannot be used to damage a rope. Likewise, most melee weapons have little effect on stone walls and doors, unless they are designed for breaking up stone, such as a pick or hammer.
A bit a rules that almost nobody seems to know/care about except for me.
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Ineffective Weapons: Certain weapons just can't effectively deal damage to certain objects. For example, a bludgeoning weapon cannot be used to damage a rope. Likewise, most melee weapons have little effect on stone walls and doors, unless they are designed for breaking up stone, such as a pick or hammer.A bit a rules that almost nobody seems to know/care about except for me.
I think being adamantite changes this considerably. The reason you don't break up stone with an axe is because the stone and axe are both pretty hard, and the axe isn't reinforced enough to take the hit. Make the axe out of something much harder than stone and you can swing away with aplomb. I used a splitting maul against a rock we needed out of the way and it worked great. (filing it back into shape afterwards, not so much)
Even a spear or a sword is effectively a digging bar.
It does say "little effect" though, not no effect. By the time you're down to using the Dwarven lockpick ANY damage will be welcome.
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when your weapon has an expanded crit/threat range, you still have to hit the opp. ac on anything other than a nat 20. If so, then you roll to confirm. I would say darn near all the players in my area all go ahead and roll to confirm whenever they roll in the threat range.
Granted you will still hit opp. ac 99% of the time anyway, but at lower levels a nat 15 with a scimitar still might not hit.
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Also, There is such a thing as a silencer for your gun, Oil of silence is 250 gp and makes your gun silent for 1hr.
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Here is something I learned tonight (thank you, James Krolak)...
Going up or down stairs is NOT difficult terrain, nor is it a climb check!
This is something we've been doing a lot WRONG locally. Time to start fixing it!Stairs
Stairs are the most common means of traveling up and down within a dungeon. A character can move up or down stairs as part of their movement without penalty, but they cannot run on them. Increase the DC of any Acrobatics skill check made on stairs by 4. Some stairs are particularly steep and are treated as difficult terrain.thanks!
but knowing my luck, I'm going to get the judges that rule all stairs "are particularly steep and are treated as difficult terrain."
But I'm going to start doing this! So that's one judge corrected...
Many scenarios call out the stairs in them specifically to be difficult terrain.
Also, I dont know whether you meant it to come off this way or not, but your 'one judge corrected' statement comes off rather snobbish. As if you feel the need to correct a GM with every possible chance.
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But I'm going to start doing this! So that's one judge corrected......
Also, I dont know whether you meant it to come off this way or not, but your 'one judge corrected' statement comes off rather snobbish. As if you feel the need to correct a GM with every possible chance.
I think he meant that this tidbit has corrected him. Not that he would be correcting others.
Edit: nosig is a ninja!
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A wand of Faerie Fire is 2 PP and it gives you 50 uses of saying 'No' to invisibility. You have to be a UMD user (or Druid) to use it, but it's still an incredibly cheap solution. This just occurred to me. Not sure why noone in my area has thought of this yet.
Getting a bead on the invisible thing to within 10 feet can be a little tricky/table varationy.
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"I'm going to start doing this!" as in I have been doing this wrong in the past... "So that's one judge corrected..." I'm the judge he just corrected...
How is this snobbish? In fact I think I said "Thanks!" at the start of the post for his correcting me...But just in case... Silbeg, thank you for correcting me. I will try to do it correctly in the future!
Didnt realize you were talking about yourself. That changes the entire context of the post. Apologies. :)
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RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 8
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A wand of Faerie Fire is 2 PP and it gives you 50 uses of saying 'No' to invisibility. You have to be a UMD user (or Druid) to use it, but it's still an incredibly cheap solution. This just occurred to me. Not sure why noone in my area has thought of this yet.Getting a bead on the invisible thing to within 10 feet can be a little tricky/table varationy.
Darn you table variation!
We already know my take on the topic of using Perception to listen for Stealthed foes, but let's assume a GM wants to make it difficult to pinpoint a hidden creature's location.
Let's not forget that a wand of faerie fire is still good for negating " the concealment normally provided by darkness, blur, and displacement."
So it's still pretty good for a 2 PP investment.
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A wand of Faerie Fire is 2 PP and it gives you 50 uses of saying 'No' to invisibility. You have to be a UMD user (or Druid) to use it, but it's still an incredibly cheap solution. This just occurred to me. Not sure why noone in my area has thought of this yet.Getting a bead on the invisible thing to within 10 feet can be a little tricky/table varationy.
Darn you table variation!
We already know my take on the topic of using Perception to listen for Stealthed foes, but let's assume a GM wants to make it difficult to pinpoint a hidden creature's location.
Let's not forget that a wand of faerie fire is still good for negating " the concealment normally provided by darkness, blur, and displacement."
So it's still pretty good for a 2 PP investment.
I have one! been using it for several seasons (UMD). But then I have something like a dozen wands of different kinds... I am after all, Da Wand-er! LOL!
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Also, There is such a thing as a silencer for your gun, Oil of silence is 250 gp and makes your gun silent for 1hr.
Be careful though: it also may well tick off all the spellcasters in your party, and makes healing you a bit more problematic, even from a wand.
(And, I think it is 300 gp)
An oil of the spell Silence is indeed 300gp.
An Oil of Silence is a specific magic item which silences only a single target firearm.
Curse you duplicate named items!
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Also, There is such a thing as a silencer for your gun, Oil of silence is 250 gp and makes your gun silent for 1hr.
Be careful though: it also may well tick off all the spellcasters in your party, and makes healing you a bit more problematic, even from a wand.
(And, I think it is 300 gp)
An oil of the spell Silence is indeed 300gp.
An Oil of Silence is a specific magic item which silences only a single target firearm.
Curse you duplicate named items!
You can't make an oil of the spell silence, because it effects an area; it doesn't have a target (even though you can center the area on an object so it will move with it. It's weird).
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You can't make an oil of the spell silence, because it effects an area; it doesn't have a target (even though you can center the area on an object so it will move with it. It's weird).Also, There is such a thing as a silencer for your gun, Oil of silence is 250 gp and makes your gun silent for 1hr.
Be careful though: it also may well tick off all the spellcasters in your party, and makes healing you a bit more problematic, even from a wand.
(And, I think it is 300 gp)
An oil of the spell Silence is indeed 300gp.
An Oil of Silence is a specific magic item which silences only a single target firearm.
Curse you duplicate named items!
Reference please? Creating potions (and I would think Oils would be the same) only specifies that it cant be a 'Personal' spell used.
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From the CRB...
Brew Potion (Item Creation)
You can create magic potions.
Prerequisite: Caster level 3rd.
Benefit: You can create a potion of any 3rd-level or lower spell that you know and that targets one or more creatures or objects. Brewing a potion takes 2 hours if its base price is 250 gp or less, otherwise brewing a potion takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. When you create a potion, you set the caster level, which must be sufficient to cast the spell in question and no higher than your own level. To brew a potion, you must use up raw materials costing one half this base price. See the magic item creation rules in Magic Items for more information.
When you create a potion, you make any choices that you would normally make when casting the spell. Whoever drinks the potion is the target of the spell.
The spell silence doesn't list a "Target", just an Area.
